What do you see when you sleep? Do you record your dreams? Are you integrating your conscious self with your unconscious psyche? In short, are you plumbing your dream world to find your soul?

The unconscious dreamworld of the acclaimed Swiss psychoanalyst, Carl Jung, is to be revealed publicly for the first time. The New York Times Magazine had a fine article last weekend about the forthcoming publication of Jung’s Red Book, a seemingly meticulous, revealing and graphically recorded tour through years of Jung’s personal dreams. This would be of interest generally given the comprehensive and aesthetically appealing work, but it is of deeper importance when one considers that Jung is one of the last century’s great psychologists and the founder of contemporary archetypal thinking.

There are, obviously, similarities between Jung’s Red Book and Federico Fellini’s Book of Dreams, which the Jungian analyst Ernst Bernhard, encouraged Fellini to maintain. Fellini duly noted and illustrated his own oneiric existence over thirty years and this exhibition at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences informatively introduced that work. (more…)